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Jane Margaret Strickland. A memoir of the life, writings, and mechanical inventions of Edmund Cartwright
A memoir of the life, writings, and mechanical inventions of Edmund Cartwright
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
“Goadby, May 30, 1780.”
CHAPTER II
“Auckland, Oct. 24th, 1787.”
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
APPENDIX
A. ARMINE AND ELVIRA: A LEGENDARY TALE
B. LETTERS FROM SIR W. JONES
C. PORTION OF MR. CARTWRIGHT’S POWER-LOOM,
D. CORDELIER, OR ROPEMAKING MACHINE
E. MR. CARTWRIGHT’S PATENT BRICKS
F. MR. CARTWRIGHT’S PRIZE ESSAY ON MANURES
G. MANCHESTER MEMORIAL, AUGUST, 1807
H. LIST OF DR. CARTWRIGHT’S PATENTS
INDEX
Philology and Early English Literature
Provincial Dialects of England
Archaeology and Numismatics
Heraldry and Topography
Biography, Literary History, and Criticism
Popular Poetry, Stories, and Superstitions
Miscellanies
Book in the Press
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Jane Margaret Strickland
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He was at this period a contributor to the Monthly Review, and Mr. Griffiths, the respectable editor of that publication, was a much-esteemed friend. When Dr. Johnson pronounced the writers for that work to be dull men who read their books, he must be allowed to have passed no small eulogium upon them; and indeed, from the whole tenour of Mr. Griffiths’ confidential correspondence with Mr. Cartwright, it appeared to have been his earnest desire that the work should be conducted with candour and integrity, and be, what it professed to be, a review of the literary productions of the day, and not merely a medium for the diffusion of party principles. Even Dr. Johnson, although in his celebrated interview with George III. he scrupled not to represent the Monthly reviewers as enemies to the church and all establishments, was compelled to do justice to their care and impartiality. The worthy editor seems to have been duly watchful of the motives that might be supposed to influence any of the writers engaged in the work; and though his scrupulous honesty might impose some restraint on the indulgence of personal feeling as well as of party spirit, yet was the loss of entertainment that might ensue from such restraint more than compensated to the reader by the sound sense and good taste which sought to direct, and not mislead, his judgment. Mr. Griffiths, alluding, in one of his letters, to a gentleman who had formerly belonged to the corps of reviewers, observes, that “he is a learned and ingenious man, but I would not trust him when he reviews the works of a friend, nor indeed of an enemy, for in either case no impartiality is to be expected from him. Poor Langhorne was the same, and many a scuffle have we had about favour and resentment. Pray, sir, when are you and I to begin to scuffle? I see no signs of a rupture yet.”
No one could bring a more cool and unimpassioned temper into the service of literary criticism than Mr. Cartwright, or a judgment less liable to be biassed by political feeling. He was, however, no compromiser of the interests of religion and morality, and has been heard in later years to express great satisfaction on reflecting that, amongst other castigations inflicted on the violation of morals and good taste, he had especially exposed the fallacy and dangerous tendency of the opinions contained in the works of certain German writers, then becoming popular. A review of “An American Farmer’s Letters, by Hector St. John,” was one of the articles in the “Monthly Review” that are now known to have been from Mr. Cartwright’s pen. These letters were published by Mr. Thomas Davies,[8] who, in a letter to Mr. Griffiths, says—“I can ascertain their authenticity, for I am acquainted with the author. He is a man of plain and simple manners, with a strong and enlightened understanding. You will perceive that he has not argumentatively touched upon the great question which unhappily divided us from our North American colonies. His feelings upon the apprehended expulsion from his farm, which really took place, are expressed with such force and energy as cannot be feigned. He who wrote the chapter of the distresses of a frontier farmer must have felt them, or he could not so naturally have described them.” It appears that Dr. Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets” were reviewed by Mr. Cartwright; and Mr. Griffiths, in a letter relative to that publication, enters at large upon a subject, now indeed of little moment, but which seemed then to have been interesting to literary men—viz., the share that Theophilus Cibber really had had in the compilation of certain lives of the poets that were published in his name.
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